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- From: Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: include file problems
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 0:16:14 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <9311091436.AA26689@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>; from "Nicholas S Castellano" at Nov 9, 93 9:36 am
-
- >
- > >Another issue: future versions of Mag!X (the commercial multitasking
- > >system from the NVDI authors) will support parts of the MiNT calls
- > >(Fselect, Fxattr and so on). It would be very nice if the MiNT library
- > >wouldn't check for the MiNT cookie. Instead it should rely on the return
- > >code -32.
- > >
- > >*IF* I would start to change parts of the library, would this be
- > >incorporated in the release, entropy?
- >
- > Only if Eric says that's legal (I don't think it is.) Only if the
- > changes come a few at a time instead of changing every file in one
- > huge patch. And only if we don't have to go out of our way to support
- > ideosyncracies in Mag!x.
- >
-
- It should, because GEMDOS always has been documented to return -32
- for unknown opcodes. And believe me -- I'm not going to change all
- at once. Regardings the last point: if the library and Mag!x are done
- correctly, there won't have to be any Mag!x specific code at all.
-
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- Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-48161 Muenster
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